Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.

(countable) A body that administers; the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.

Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.

(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.

''the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

(uncountable, business) Management.

(uncountable, legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

The company went into voluntary administration last week.

Noun

(en noun)

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

(New England) cupboard

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet , and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}

(historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".

* 1891 , , A Scandal In Bohemia , Norton (2005), p. 19,

Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet ?”

A group of advisors to a government or business entity.

(politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.

(archaic) A small chamber or private room.

* Prescott

Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.

(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.

(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.

(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.

* Spenser

Hearken a while from thy green cabinet , / The rural song of careful Colinet.